Tinted detail of a photo: Black-and-white rock face where thin layers of rock bend upwards in a broad dome shape like an arch, rising from loose stones and a small plant at the base.
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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

Archives / 2021 / August

An online learning platform for cyclostratigraphy – www.cyclostratigraphy.org

An online learning platform for cyclostratigraphy – www.cyclostratigraphy.org

Cyclostratigraphers aim to read and understand the effect of climate-driven orbital changes in the geological record through time. In doing so, they start from an important prerequisite: An imprint of insolation variations caused by Earth’s orbital eccentricity, obliquity and/or precession (Milankovitch forcing) can be preserved in the geological rock record. The new www.cyclostratigraphy.org website is …[Read More]